The commanders of the allied countries did not know that at this time, more than ten miles northwest of the Beicang defensive line, the artillery regiment of the Dragon and Tiger Army had already placed all the 44 cannons captured in Wuqing County.

In addition, there are also some of the cannons of the coalition army and the Qing army captured in Yanjing City, and together, there are more than 80 cannons on the artillery position.

At the former enemy's command post, Wang Jundao was listening to the communication report from Fan Zong: "Commander, the 1st Division, the 3rd Division, the Cavalry Division, the Tiger Roar Division and the Tiger Roar Division of the Tiger Ben Guard Army have all arrived at the designated location, the two companies of the artillery regiment and the two companies of the machine gun regiment have also arrived at the designated position, and the Tiger and Leopard Division has been reduced to pieces. ”

"Okay."

Wang Jundao nodded, and said: "Since the coalition forces want to increase their troops and expose their soldiers to our artillery fire, then let them wail in the sound of our captured foreign artillery, pass on my order, after a quarter of an hour, launch an artillery bombardment on the Beicang defense line, the duration of the shelling is a quarter of an hour!" ”

Originally, Wang Jundao's military plan was to let the coalition army transfer a large number of soldiers in Tianjin City to the Beicang defense line through artillery bombardment and attack, but now he doesn't need to shell at all, the soldiers in Tianjin City have been transferred first, it's like God is helping him! He can now use captured cannons and shells to bombard the positions of the coalition forces and wipe out the living forces of the coalition forces!

Beicang has now gathered more than 10,000 coalition troops, of which nearly 7,000 are Yuben soldiers, and Yamaguchi Suchen personally sits in charge and is the supreme commander of the Beicang defense line.

At this time, the commander of the brigade, Ono Tomo, walked into the headquarters, and Yamaguchi Suchen hurriedly asked, "How are the fortifications being built?" ”

Ono replied: "The three trenches have been completed, all the 120 heavy machine guns have been deployed, and all the 5,000 soldiers are in place, even if there are 50,000 Chinese* troops, they will not want to break through our defenses." ”

"Okay."

Yamaguchi Suchen nodded, and asked again: "Have you found out the situation of the Chinese* army?" ”

Ohno Zhi shook his head and said, "No, it's been two whole days, and none of the people we sent out have come back, and it is likely that they have been more than lucky." ”

Yamaguchi Suchen's eyes lit up, and he said: "Continue to investigate, there are all kinds of signs that there is a real elite unit in the [***] team, they are not many in number, but they are suitable for all kinds of wars, let the Imperial * soldiers who go out must be careful." ”

Ono said loudly, "Yes, Commander. ”

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

At this moment, a violent explosion sounded, the ground of the headquarters was shaking, and Yamaguchi Suchen's face changed greatly: "Where is the artillery?" ”

How could Tomoshi Ohno know?

With such a strong cannon sound and such a close explosion, he had already judged that all the shells had exploded on the defensive position of Beicang, and he shook his head with a shocked face and said, "I don't know, I'll go and check." ”

"Hurry up!"

How could Yamaguchi Suchen not know where the shells fell? He could even hear that most of the shells were German Krupp guns and British Armstrong guns.

The sound of artillery is still unabated, and there seem to be signs of gradual strengthening, and at this time, the defense line of the coalition forces in the north warehouse has become dusty and a mess.

It has to be said that the quality of the cannons produced by the British and Germans is indeed guaranteed, especially the shells, which are terrifyingly powerful.

The allied soldiers dug the trenches in a hurry, and did not expect that the Chinese* army would have so many artillery, and did not have time to dig anti-artillery holes, and in the face of such terrifying and dense artillery fire, one by one the soldiers could not find an effective hiding place at all, and they became cannon fodder one after another.

Yamaguchi Sochen's headquarters was in a blind spot of artillery fire and was not affected by the shells, but he was now as anxious as ants on a hot pot, spinning around, and with such fierce artillery fire, he could imagine the situation on the position without looking.

Barron, the former commander of the British enemy, rushed in from outside the headquarters, and he said loudly before he had time to make a report: "General Yamaguchi, the artillery fire of the Chinese* army is too fierce, and our soldiers have suffered too heavy losses, do you want the soldiers to withdraw from their positions first." ”

Yamaguchi Suchen shook his head and said: "No, the Chinese* army has a large number of cavalry, if our soldiers withdraw from their positions, once the Chinese cavalry comes to attack, we will not be able to organize an effective counteroffensive at all, and it will even be difficult to defend." ”

Barron obviously knew about this situation, and said anxiously: "Then will we just let the Chinese* army shell it now?" Our artillery simply couldn't find their artillery positions and couldn't return fire. ”

Yamaguchi Suchen said calmly: "The Chinese should use the allied artillery captured in Yanjing City and Wuqing County, they can't have a lot of shells, I estimate that they will stop shelling soon." ”

Barron would love to scold Yamaguchi Susen, there are not a lot of shells? Not to mention the cannons and shells captured in the Battle of Yanjing City, just the cannons of Wuqing County, each cannon is worthy of a full three hundred shells, if these shells are captured by the Chinese, I am afraid that the entire Beicang defense line will be razed to the ground, this is a joke with the lives of the soldiers!

But then Barron was puzzled, because, as Yamaguchi Sochen said, the Chinese artillery fire stopped, and he secretly asked himself in his heart: Is the Chinese really short of shells?

Hearing that the artillery stopped, Yamaguchi Suchen finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "You pass the order, let all the soldiers hold their positions, the Chinese have a large number of cavalry, after this shelling, they will definitely start the attack, and also, let the engineers dig anti-artillery holes as soon as possible, once the Chinese attack fails, there will definitely be artillery bombardment." ”

"Yes."

Barron answered the order and hurried away.

Soon, Yamaguchi Sochen regretted his stupid move, and just when the coalition soldiers who had not been killed or injured by shells on the trenches began to hold their positions, and the engineers were also engaged in the construction of the trenches and began to dig anti-artillery holes, the second shelling of the Tiger Army came.

The 15-minute artillery bombardment once again caused heavy losses to the coalition soldiers on the Beicang defensive line, and in addition to the previous round of shelling, tens of thousands of shells fell on the coalition positions, more than 3,000 coalition soldiers were killed in the shelling, and more than 1,000 people lost their combat effectiveness directly because of the shelling.

However, Wang Jundao was in the temporary command headquarters, listening to the news from the front line from the special combat troops, and laughed proudly, because the shelling just now was directed by him, and he found out the psychology of the commander of the Beicang defense line of the coalition army.

Under normal circumstances, the end of the shelling would be accompanied by an attack, but he did the opposite and launched a second shelling of the North Cang line.

And when the artillery bombardment of Beicang was in full swing, the offensive and defensive battles of the Tonghai Tunhe defense line and the Balitai defense line also began, but the intensity of the artillery fire was weaker than the Beicang defense line, I don't know how many times.

At the same time, the Haw Par Division dissolved a small group of mobile troops, each of which numbered about 1,000 people, and a whole of more than 20 mobile units, mainly cavalry and infantry supplements, thoroughly launched an offensive attack on various small strategic strongholds outside Tianjin.